Sphaerolepis

Sphaerolepis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrissolepidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 300.9 Mya to 286 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 60 of 64 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 64 occurrencesPermian304–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 9 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 51 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300.9 Mya286 Mya304.3 Mya273.8 Mya

64 occurrences of Sphaerolepis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

64 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

8 formations

Slaný — 50.21°N, 13.68°ESlaný — 50.44°N, 15.13°ESlaný — 50.41°N, 14.45°ESlaný — 50.33°N, 14.87°ESlaný — 50.32°N, 14.62°ESlaný — 50.08°N, 14.33°ESlaný — 50.23°N, 13.97°ESlaný — 50.15°N, 13.63°ESlaný — 50.21°N, 13.78°ESlaný — 50.35°N, 14.70°ESlaný — 50.36°N, 14.76°ESlaný — 50.26°N, 14.03°ESlaný — 49.71°N, 13.21°ESlaný — 50.22°N, 13.88°ESlaný — 50.33°N, 14.75°ESlaný — 50.19°N, 14.08°ELíně — 50.51°N, 14.43°ELíně — 50.44°N, 15.13°ELíně — 50.41°N, 14.45°ELíně — 50.37°N, 14.15°ELíně — 50.37°N, 15.01°ELíně — 50.28°N, 14.07°ELíně — 50.29°N, 13.99°ELíně — 50.37°N, 14.51°ELíně — 50.35°N, 14.70°ELíně — 50.36°N, 14.76°ELíně — 50.29°N, 13.92°ELíně — 50.33°N, 14.75°ESemily — 50.50°N, 15.43°ESemily — 50.44°N, 15.13°ESemily — 50.57°N, 15.40°ESemily — 50.57°N, 15.35°ESemily — 50.19°N, 15.14°ESyřenov — 50.44°N, 15.13°ESyřenov — 50.50°N, 15.43°EWellington — 36.16°N, 97.34°WWellington — 36.30°N, 97.30°WGarber — 36.77°N, 97.77°WGarber — 36.66°N, 97.69°WSlany — 50.23°N, 14.07°EChvaleč — 50.62°N, 15.99°E

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The named rock units Sphaerolepis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphaerolepis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Sphaerolepis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Sphaerolepis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

7 references

Each of the 64 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Sphaerolepis

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sphaerolepis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frič 1877